Sound Offs: For May 17, 2014

Driving through Cohoes, there’s a marathon going on. It goes across all three major lanes of traffic that gets you out of the city from bottom to top. I’m curious what genius planned this.

Attention landlords in the city of Troy school district. Since they let people who don’t own city property vote for the school budget, they really don’t care if it goes up 2.9 percent in taxes. So when it goes up 2.9 percent, rent goes up 2.9 percent.